12. Your patient is a 5 year old boy that comes in after a bicycle accident with extensive lacerations on his arms and legs. There is a total of 44 cm of lacerations. He weighs 30 kg. You have used a total of 35 mL of 2% Lidocaine with out epinephrine. He still seems to be feeling most of the laceration. What is the best management plan based upon this scenario?
A. Continue infiltrating with lidocaine until adequate anesthesia is obtained.
B. Just suture the laceration. Sometimes children are not reliable when it comes to assessing adequate anesthesia
C. Recommend the patients lacerations be closed in the operating room.
D. Start the patient on ancef and just let the lacerations heel by secondary intention.
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